The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-10


him raise his hand against her. The wo-
man fell in drunken lit and struck her
head against the stove, and lay there un
conscious till she died. SO instead of going
to the gallows as the paper prognosticated,
the OLD man, happily rid OF a curse which
had been the bane of his life, may now be-
fore his final summons enjoy short season
Of comfort and repose.
lVhen people outside of New York hear
of the different gangs that infest our city,it
is hard for them to understand how such
organizations of unhung villains could exist
in any well regulated METROPOLIS. 1t would
be more astonishing still If you could see
where some of the criminals live. Right
up by Central Park, in the more aristocrat-
ic portion of the city, for many years there
was colony among The rocks such as you
would scarcely expect to find among the
mountains of Wicklow or the wIlds of Con-
namara. The settlement was exclusively
Irish, and You could hear more Irish spoken
there in a day than you would hear in Cork
or Dublin in a week. While the upper part
of the city was comparatively unmproved,
an enterprising Irishman squatted on
large extent of territory. He then made
out leases TO large number of his coniid
ing countrymen, and in very short time
| he had two or three thousand tenants pay
| ing him from twenty-five cents to dollar a
week He collected these rents for nearly
seven years before the police dropped to his
game; but before they found him out he
had bagged sufficient to return to his native
land a bloated bondholder, where he pur-
chased an estate, and 1t is now said that he
| is one of the most relentless eyictors in all
Ireland.
The names of some of these gangs haye
a national reputation, that is, representa-
tiye members are to be found in every State
Prison from Maine to California. The
| Whyo Gang is the legitimate successor of
the Killers, that, with the Short Boys, d-
vided the criminal honors of New York
forty years ago. Mike Walsh, one of the
gang, was representative in Congress; his
particular body guard, which then quartered
near the Bowery, was known as the Spar.
tan Band. The Killers and Short Boys,
while bitter personal enemies, had one feel
ing in common, and that was hatred of
the Dutch; and everything was Dutch with
them that could not speak English. Our
German population was not so numerous
then as they are now; but with each re-
turning season they used to assemble in
the green fields of Hoboken to havea Volks-
some other jolificaton, and every time that
they met the Short Boys and Killers would
cross over from New York, and QUIT pure
deviltry assault the inoffensive Germans,
outrage their women and break up their
celebrations. Tho police afforded no pro-
lection, for the Killers and Short Boys had
a political pull, which the Germans had
not. This went on for several years; but
the GERMANS in the meantime were gaining
strength. At last they turned on their per-
secutors, and the result was number of
coroner's inquests on Short Boys and Kill
ers, and they were taught such lesson
that they haye left the Germans alone from
that day to this. The remnants of the two
clans formed the Whyo Gang, which has
furnished between twenty and thirty can
didates for The gallows and oyer hundred
TO States Prison. About forty have been
killed in brawls and the survivors are
Thugs and thieves of the lowest class.
Danny Lyons wake last week closed the
chapter of the last leader. The one before
him was Dan Driscoll, the murderer of his
paramour, Beezy Garrahan, who is now
under sentence of death. Dan Lyons was
fond of bad whiskey, but always declined
to pay for it-inyiting the barkeeper to
hang il up. But on Tuesday he tackled a
tough almost as bad as himself, and the re-
suit was coroner's inquest and wake
which brought ont in full force all the
ladies and gentlemen in theDevil's Barracks
and the House Blazes. The whole neigh
Dor was aroused; they poured in from every
quarter, for they were determined TO give
Danny good send-oif.
And thin the byes began to wake him.
Lying on his little bed
With fifteen candles at his feet,
Aud twenty more above his head
They kept il mp for two days. Whiskey
flowed Ike water, and finally this thievine
Thug, who had been a thief and a ruiiian
ever since he could walk, was consigned to
the grave with pomp and circumstance
: that might have distinguished some public
! benetactor. That's the way we do things
/ in New York. Within the past few months
severe inroads have been made by the
police on the prinaipal gangs of this city,
} the manning and killing of several police.
: men making their extemnation matter
of necessity
The cool weather and the arrival of Sep
, tember combined have helped 10 give the
city very lively appearance. Those who
? have been absent are rushing back by land
p and sea. All the hotels are crowded, and
the streets are full from early morn till lats
E at night. The children and boys and girls
= who have been having their summer outing
are all getting back prepared for the schools
} As an evidende of business prosperity, about
J all the great wholesale houses in dry goods
= groceries, and hardware, men are working
late into the night and sometimes all night
, packing goods for the West and South
while long lines of drays stand along The